Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A BRIDAL SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY


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First Line: The golden gates of sleep [or, slumber] unbar
Last Line: Come along!
Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium


The golden gates of sleep unbar
Where strength and beauty, met together,
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look down;
Darkness, weep thy holiest dew;
Never smiled the inconstant moon
On a pair so true.
Let eyes not see their own delight; --
Haste, swift hour, and thy flight
Oft renew.
Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
Holy stars, permit no wrong!
And return to wake the sleeper.
Dawn, - ere it be long.
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun?
Come along!




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